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  <section id="autouic">
<span id="prop_tgt:AUTOUIC"></span><h1>AUTOUIC<a class="headerlink" href="#autouic" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>Should the target be processed with auto-uic (for Qt projects).</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC</span></code> is a boolean specifying whether CMake will handle
the Qt <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uic</span></code> code generator automatically, i.e. without having to use
commands like <span class="target" id="index-0-module:FindQt4"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../module/FindQt4.html#module:FindQt4" title="FindQt4"><code class="xref cmake cmake-module docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">qt4_wrap_ui()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.15/qtwidgets-cmake-qt5-wrap-ui.html">qt5_wrap_ui()</a>, etc.
Currently, Qt versions 4 to 6 are supported.</p>
<p>This property is initialized by the value of the <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_AUTOUIC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_AUTOUIC.html#variable:CMAKE_AUTOUIC" title="CMAKE_AUTOUIC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_AUTOUIC</span></code></a>
variable if it is set when a target is created.</p>
<p>When this property is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ON</span></code>, CMake will scan the header and source files at
build time and invoke <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uic</span></code> accordingly.</p>
<section id="header-and-source-file-processing">
<h2>Header and source file processing<a class="headerlink" href="#header-and-source-file-processing" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>At build time, CMake scans each header and source file from the
target's sources for include statements of the form</p>
<div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="cp">#include</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="cpf">&quot;ui_&lt;ui_base&gt;.h&quot;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Once such an include statement is found in a file, CMake searches for the
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uic</span></code> input file <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;ui_base&gt;.ui</span></code></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>in the vicinity of the file and</p></li>
<li><p>in the <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS.html#prop_tgt:AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS" title="AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC_SEARCH_PATHS</span></code></a> of the target.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>If the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;ui_base&gt;.ui</span></code> file was found, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uic</span></code> is called on it to generate
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ui_&lt;ui_base&gt;.h</span></code> in the directory</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR&gt;/include</span></code> for single configuration generators or in</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR&gt;/include_&lt;CONFIG&gt;</span></code> for
<span class="target" id="index-0-prop_gbl:GENERATOR_IS_MULTI_CONFIG"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_gbl/GENERATOR_IS_MULTI_CONFIG.html#prop_gbl:GENERATOR_IS_MULTI_CONFIG" title="GENERATOR_IS_MULTI_CONFIG"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_gbl docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">multi</span> <span class="pre">configuration</span></code></a> generators.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR&gt;</span></code> is the value of the target property
<span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR.html#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR" title="AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>The include directory is automatically added to the target's
<span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES"></span><a class="reference internal" href="INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.html#prop_tgt:INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES" title="INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES</span></code></a>.</p>
</section>
<section id="modifiers">
<h2>Modifiers<a class="headerlink" href="#modifiers" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p><span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOUIC_EXECUTABLE"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOUIC_EXECUTABLE.html#prop_tgt:AUTOUIC_EXECUTABLE" title="AUTOUIC_EXECUTABLE"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC_EXECUTABLE</span></code></a>:
The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uic</span></code> executable will be detected automatically, but can be forced to
a certain binary using this target property.</p>
<p><span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOUIC_OPTIONS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOUIC_OPTIONS.html#prop_tgt:AUTOUIC_OPTIONS" title="AUTOUIC_OPTIONS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC_OPTIONS</span></code></a>:
Additional command line options for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uic</span></code> can be set via this target
property.  The corresponding <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_sf:AUTOUIC_OPTIONS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_sf/AUTOUIC_OPTIONS.html#prop_sf:AUTOUIC_OPTIONS" title="AUTOUIC_OPTIONS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_sf docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC_OPTIONS</span></code></a> source file property
can be used to specify options to be applied only to a specific
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;base_name&gt;.ui</span></code> file.</p>
<p><span class="target" id="index-0-prop_sf:SKIP_AUTOUIC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_sf/SKIP_AUTOUIC.html#prop_sf:SKIP_AUTOUIC" title="SKIP_AUTOUIC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_sf docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SKIP_AUTOUIC</span></code></a>:
Source files can be excluded from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC</span></code> processing by setting
this source file property.</p>
<p><span class="target" id="index-0-prop_sf:SKIP_AUTOGEN"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_sf/SKIP_AUTOGEN.html#prop_sf:SKIP_AUTOGEN" title="SKIP_AUTOGEN"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_sf docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SKIP_AUTOGEN</span></code></a>:
Source files can be excluded from <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOMOC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOMOC.html#prop_tgt:AUTOMOC" title="AUTOMOC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOMOC</span></code></a>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC</span></code> and <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTORCC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTORCC.html#prop_tgt:AUTORCC" title="AUTORCC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTORCC</span></code></a> processing by
setting this source file property.</p>
<p><span class="target" id="index-0-prop_gbl:AUTOGEN_TARGETS_FOLDER"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_gbl/AUTOGEN_TARGETS_FOLDER.html#prop_gbl:AUTOGEN_TARGETS_FOLDER" title="AUTOGEN_TARGETS_FOLDER"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_gbl docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_TARGETS_FOLDER</span></code></a>:
This global property can be used to group <span class="target" id="index-1-prop_tgt:AUTOMOC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOMOC.html#prop_tgt:AUTOMOC" title="AUTOMOC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOMOC</span></code></a>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC</span></code> and <span class="target" id="index-1-prop_tgt:AUTORCC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTORCC.html#prop_tgt:AUTORCC" title="AUTORCC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTORCC</span></code></a> targets together in an IDE,
e.g.  in MSVS.</p>
<p><span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET.html#variable:CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET" title="CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET</span></code></a>:
A global <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">autogen</span></code> target, that depends on all <span class="target" id="index-2-prop_tgt:AUTOMOC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOMOC.html#prop_tgt:AUTOMOC" title="AUTOMOC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOMOC</span></code></a> or
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC</span></code> generated <a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-qt.7.html#origin-autogen"><span class="std std-ref">The &lt;ORIGIN&gt;_autogen target</span></a> targets in the project,
will be generated when this variable is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ON</span></code>.</p>
<p><span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_PARALLEL"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOGEN_PARALLEL.html#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_PARALLEL" title="AUTOGEN_PARALLEL"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_PARALLEL</span></code></a>:
This target property controls the number of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">moc</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uic</span></code> processes to
start in parallel during builds.</p>
<p><span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_COMMAND_LINE_LENGTH_MAX"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOGEN_COMMAND_LINE_LENGTH_MAX.html#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_COMMAND_LINE_LENGTH_MAX" title="AUTOGEN_COMMAND_LINE_LENGTH_MAX"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_COMMAND_LINE_LENGTH_MAX</span></code></a>:
This target property controls the limit when to use response files for
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">moc</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uic</span></code> processes on Windows.</p>
<p>See the <span class="target" id="index-0-manual:cmake-qt(7)"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-qt.7.html#manual:cmake-qt(7)" title="cmake-qt(7)"><code class="xref cmake cmake-manual docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake-qt(7)</span></code></a> manual for more information on using CMake
with Qt.</p>
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